Yaoqi Zhou
Senior Principal Investigator
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
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Top SchoolYaoqi Zhou is a senior principal investigator and structural bioinformatics leader with 8 years in his current focused research trajectory and a career spanning major academic and entrepreneurial roles. He specializes in protein and RNA structure-function prediction, structure-based discovery of peptide and small-molecule therapeutics, and computational discrimination of disease-causing variants, with over 160 peer-reviewed publications and software (SPARKS) that has been licensed to industry. He founded and led interdisciplinary labs that bridge computational prediction with experimental validation of antibiotics, antivirals, anticancer peptides and vaccine candidates. Based in Shenzhen and trained with a PhD in chemical physics from Stony Brook, he blends deep theoretical grounding with practical translation, having co-started biotech ventures and served as CTO in early-stage startups. Known for a "hungry and humble" mindset, he repeatedly turns computational insights into licensed tools and biologically tested drug leads.
8 years of coding experience
BS, Chemical Physics, BS, Chemical Physics at University of Science and Technology of ChinaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemical Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemical Physics at Stony Brook UniversityGithub contributions (5)
daocrossover/Leetcode-Java
Nov 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:135 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
daocrossover/Leetcode-Cpp
Sep 2018 - Dec 2021
Contributions:249 commits, 221 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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